Chua Lam (August 18, 1941 -), a native of Chaozhou, Guangdong, was born in Singapore, studied in Japan, and developed his career in Hong Kong. He is a film producer, film supervisor, gourmet, columnist, and TV show host. People, businessmen. In his youth, he was influenced by his father and read many works by modern writers. In his early years, he wrote film reviews for Nanyang Siang Pau in Singapore. When he was 16 or 7 years old, he left Singapore to go abroad, and later went to Japan to study film production.

Cai Lam’s father, Cai Wenxuan, immigrated to Nanyang from Zhaomencai Village, Chaoan County, Chaozhou in his early years. He was a poet and later worked as a clerk in a branch of the Shaw Brothers Studio. His mother, Hong Fangping, was the principal of a primary school. Cai Lam is the third eldest child in the family. Chua Lam has lived in Tokyo, New York, Paris, Seoul, Taipei, Barcelona and Bangkok, and is proficient in many languages. He once learned calligraphy and seal cutting from Mr. Feng Kanghou.

After Chua Lam arrived in Hong Kong in 1963, he worked as a film producer for the largest studios in Southeast Asia such as Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest for a long time. The films he has produced include: Food Truck, Brothers, Lucky Star, City Hunter, Human Torch, A Good Man, Crime Squad and other blockbusters starring Jackie Chan.

In 1989, Huang Zhan, Cai Lam, and Ni Kuang co-hosted the TV program "Undefended Tonight", which set a viewing record for Hong Kong TV programs at the same time.